Inter Miami and Nashville had their inaugural seasons in 2020.
Cincinnati had their first season in the MLS in 2019.
LAFC began life in the MLS during the 2018 season.
Finally, Minnesota and Atlanta United joined the league in 2017.
*This data is average across the 2017-2020 seasons of the MLS based on player salaries from the Player’s Association Annual Report.
The positions can be filtered out by clicking on the legend. log of total compensation was used to create a more normal distribution for ease of viewing the data. Exact salaries can be searched in the data table tab.
Positions can be filtered out by clicking on the position name in the legend. The salary data is shown in the log of total compensation for ease of viewing the data but full salary information can be found on the data table tab.
Total compensation is shown as the log of salary for ease for reading and for normalizing the data. Specific compensation information by player can be found in the data table tab.
The US and Jamaica are over lapping for their labels and do not want to be separated.
The data is from three sources: Kaggle.com, MLS Player Association (MLSPA) Annual Salary Report, and Fbref for nationality information.